Search results

610 results
The CBA14 logo with a photograph of a person planting rice.
Twitter chat: CBA14 – from local solutions to global action
… We are inviting the global development community to participate in a Twitter chat about driving community-based … conversation will cover topics related to the CBA conference themes: climate finance, adaptation technology, responsive policy, nature-based … adaptation, putting the people most vulnerable to climate change at the centre of the conversation. This year, this key event in …
News, 26 August 2020
Left: Women and schoolgirls discuss the benefits of harvesting rainwater (Credit: ISET). Right: A girl collects water from the rainwater storage tank (Credit: Fawad Khan)
Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin
… Climate science shows that the effects of climate change will escalate over time. The world's most poor and vulnerable … benefits. This approach stands a greater chance of success if it is based on what has been shown to work.  Using evaluative frameworks such … Climate change … Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin …
Insight, 18 March 2014
A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)
Government group network on climate change mainstreaming
… learned in designing and implementing public policy responses to climate change. Climate change is a global problem – but adapting to the impacts … Group Network for Climate Change Mainstreaming. The group is a community of practice of government staff working at national and local … Climate change … Climate-resilient development …
Project, 29 September 2014
Solar panels on a lake.
Organisers offer busy events programme in the countdown to CBA14
… inclusivity, the organisers of the  14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA14) are hosting a wide range of … restoration technologies to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change. Come to learn about how it works and share your own stories and … Climate change …
News, 31 August 2020
An irrigation pond.
CBA14: From local solutions to global action
… made this year like no other. The 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA14) in 2020 was very much the same and yet fundamentally … Climate change …
Event, 20 September 2020
IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq addresses the CBA8 conference (Photo: Stephanie Andrei)
Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?
… – had something valuable to give to the movement for positive social change.  Not only was this recognition of the value and capacities of … deeper resonance, power and meaning. Today a local-to-local climate change community based adaptation and climate justice movement is emerging … Climate change … Can voodoo help to resolve climate change? …
Insight, 09 May 2014
A cartoon showing an adult holding a sign and a group of children saying: "We already know how to hold a sign. Show us how to redirect funding to sustainable resource management technologies".
CBA14 preview event uses climate cartoons to trigger discussions
… director for research and innovation at the  Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre , introduced the cartoon session. He emphasised the value … working in Zambia, India and Bangladesh. These focused on how community-based groups are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and … by fostering nature-based solutions to build resilience to climate change and other risks.  Godavari Dange, secretary of the Sakhi …
Article, 05 August 2020
Climate adaptation conference to open in Bangladesh, the "adaptation capital of the world"
… The 7th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA7) takes place in Dhaka on 22-25 April.  Bangladesh's Prime … Climate adaptation conference to open in Bangladesh, the "adaptation capital of the world" …
News, 18 April 2013
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
News, 22 November 2016
Cover for G03176.pdf
6th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation Brochure
… The Sixth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA6) Hanoi, Viet Nam, 16th to 22nd April 2012. Three days … Climate change … 6th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation Brochure …
Publication, 01 November 2011